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F# To Get VS Integration

F# will move from a Microsoft Research project to a fully integrated part of Visual Studio.

October 23, 2007
URL:http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/f-to-get-vs-integration/202600705

In a recent blog posting, Microsoft made public its intention to move the F# programming language out of the realm of research and fully integrate the language into the Visual Studio environment.

Developed at Microsoft Research, the F# language shares many design features with OCaml, and therefore offers a foundation in functional programming, yet attempts to capitalize on object-oriented concepts and be a multi-paradigm language in the .NET context.

According to his blog posting, Microsoft VP S. Somasegar sees the language's "somewhat mathematical slant" finding it a home in the domains of "financial, scientific and technical computing."